Rome: Miracle of the Madonna of the Snow
Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore Piazza di Santa Maria Maggiore, 42, Rome, ItalyAccording to legend, in 352 AD, a rich and bored Roman gentleman experienced a vivid dream in which the Virgin Mary told him that a certain hill in Rome would be covered in snow in the morning, and that he should then use his money to build a church on that site. Being that Rome was deep in a steamy ...